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Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I like poking my nose into other people’s lives.

I’ve always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.